@@kedacchi12 That's not revenge. Paul had to play drums because Ringo was acting like a big baby and not feeling appreciated and stormed off leaving the group short-handed. Paul is the only man in the group who didn't ever quit the Beatles.
Ringo looked so excited (or so high) that he was almost foaming at the mouth, but he managed to keep the beat and his sunglasses in place at the same time.
Not only Beach Boys are singing a song in the independence day of their country inspired in the archienemy of the country... the song was inspired in them and released by their own 'archienemies' 😂
Fantastic !!! Ringo looked like he was having just as much fun playing on this Beatles song as he did when The Beatles were still together. Seems like he was just waiting for a chance to drum on Back in The USSR to a Beatles size crowd. The Beach Boys were great as always. Loved it !
Maggie Rae I think he was waiting for a chance to drum on this song, period. He had temporarily quit when the Beatles made their recording, so Paul filled in.
Ringo was a better drummer than some think he was. Some say he just pounded the drums like Dennis Wilson. They were both under rated. On a good day, Dennis Wilson was a very good drummer...
I once read Dennis played the drums like a cave man. I say he played with tremendous emotion and he was having a ball. Yeah , I was too and that's all that mattered . Didn't care if he wasn't Buddy Rich .
Paul didn't think he was better than Ringo at playing the drums. He played the drums on the song because Ringo had quit the band during the time they were recording it.
Ringo quit for that reason 😂 Evrytime he went to the loo Paul jumped on his kits trying to cut a drum part...then he decided the hell with it and went to Sardinia to write octopus garden
@@realIndian80 Very true. Paul also dropped in drum parts when the other guys went home at the end of the sessions. Ringo would hear a playback the next day and would think he was losing his mind . If you follow the takes of Sgt. Pepper lead song you'll hear what I mean.
Ringo is the man. Always catches so much shit from the "know it alls" of the world and still he's always just happy and having a good time. Great way to live.
here is respect.the beatles always said about the importance of the beach boys album,pet sounds and now the beach boys singing a beatles song.respect from both sides and its great.
The most curious thing about all this is that in the Original Recording Paul McCartney records this song playing Ringo's drums in a much heavier way (a style that Ringo didn't like to play) and to provoke his friend (who was out of the group at that time) Paul sings with a nasal tone very similar to Ringo.
Ringo Starr(Richard Starkey) didn't play the drums in the original recording of Back in the USSR. It was Paul McCartney who played the drums and the lead guitar part on this first track of the Beatles (White album) which was released in '68
@cometandcupids yes,that's funny thinking this is possibly the one and only time Ringo ever performed on this song! even funnier,he did it with the Beach Boys...
This is great! Brian Wilson was the one who suggested to Paul McCartney that he sing it like a Beach Boys song so he did! Most of the comments on here are at least five or six years old and we written by a bunch of arrogant Pricks who thought they knew everything! It's laughable reading it now.
Mike Love says that Paul wrote "USSR" as a parody of the Beach Boy's harmonies and their "girl songs." Mike and the Beatles were all in India at the same time in 1967 and Mike claims he and Paul discussed having a Beatle song spoof the Beach Boys. I have no way to know if it is true, but so says Mike Love.
It must be strange for Ringo to be playing a song written by his mate but looking down, it's not his Beatles mates but the Beach Boys...sure would like to know what's on his mind. ..
ok, just to get things strait, they had a deadline to release the album and paul took over after ringo walked out after fight. he had to do the drums when ringo dint show for more than 3 days. ringo said he would have done the same thing if he was in pauls shoes. no everyone saying that paul is a tool.
many of these artists are quite versatile----during the Jailhouse Rock session, Elvis wanted his bass player Bill Black to switch from the big upright bass to a new small electric-guitar bass-----Bill B was having much trouble making the switch.---So Presley, who was a decent guitar player, took over and played electric bass himself at the session and on the records.
Well they chose the wrong song to bring ringo on drums he wasn't even on the original Paul played drums on back in the USSR is that period of few weeks during the recording of the White album when he said he will quit and went for holiday to Italy.
@@stevenwoods6093 unbelievable! based on the ignorance of your previous comment, i wouldn't have even guessed you were a musician at all let alone a drummer!!
I was there for this concert. it's a long story, but I had a friend who invited me, & so I went--she knew I was a BB's fan 4-ever. To this day 2 things : 1. Mike's absolute worst hat, EVER. It looked so stupid, it was beyond words. ----2. BW looked miserable. ------3. Jeff Foskett , Bruce, Al, & Carl, saved the day by their total professionalism. Mike was totally OUT OF CONTROL. -----------4. It was 95 degrees ! ----------------------Wolfsky9, 70 y/o
Here is an article from wiki in which Paul states that he wrote this song as a parody of the Beach Boys -----en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_in_the_U.S.S.R.
Here's one source showing that Paul was doing a satire of the Beach Boys when he wrote this record---Wikipedia also tells the same story: www.songfacts.com/facts/the-beatles/back-in-the-ussr
The problem with Dennis was his substance abuse not his drumming but that abuse could hamper his playing at times though.. Brian would use studio musicians, at least in a lot of the stuff later on so Carl and Al weren't on some of those recordings either. Sometimes the Beach Boys would be on the road without Brian who would be in the studio working on the latest music. Ringo, at times, just pounded the drums when it was called for but was more versatile than just doing that.
@@SleazyNice Paul never plagiarized Chuck Berry. The only time he came close was when he used Chuck Berry's bassline for I Saw Her Standing There, but that's legally not plagiarizing. It was John who plagiarized him for Come Together and got sued.
@@ewest14 - Not only did Paul steal the bassline for I Saw Her Standing There, he also stole the melody. So yeah, he's a plagiarist. But neither he nor Lennon are anywhere near the level of Leiber and Stoller and Led Zeppelin when it comes to plagiarism. Paul was constantly stealing. Check this out: th-cam.com/video/G5odaPQ0eVo/w-d-xo.html It was produced in 1956 at Parlophone, headed by George Martin. Yes Martin helped the Beatles steal. This is also the reason he kept his mouth shut when Sublime came out with "What I Got".
@@SleazyNice Paul copied the bassline for I Saw Her Standing There, but he admitted to it openly and using the bassline wasn't plagiarizing according to the law. He did not plagiarize the melody though, that's original. Paul was not constantly stealing. Just as a lot of the comments suggest in the video you linked, Paul only took inspiration from that song. He took parts of it and added his own parts to create something new.
Considering Ringo only wrote two songs with the Beatles, there was not much to choose from. In addition, this song had the "beach Boys" written all over it so it makes sense for them to do it.
Interviewer: "John, is Ringo the best drummer in the Rock?" John: "He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles" Ringo did what needed to be done and provided the glue to keep them together.
![The Beach Boys - Back in the U.S.S.R. [Live 1999]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4ZCB8Kq-Nbw/mqdefault.jpg)
The Beach Boys performing an affectionate parody of themselves is so cool.
Finally Ringo got his revenge and OWNED this song.
sigerico71 hahaha
Revenge for the lot of them! The Beach Boys got to rock the song that made fun of them, and Ringo got to go ham on those drums.
"revenge"?
recordingのrevengeですね
Paul played drum
@@kedacchi12 That's not revenge. Paul had to play drums because Ringo was acting like a big baby and not feeling appreciated and stormed off leaving the group short-handed. Paul is the only man in the group who didn't ever quit the Beatles.
Very amusing to hear the Beach Boys imitating the Beatles who were satirizing the Beach Boys.
Mike Love did however have some involvement in its creation when he was in India with The Beatles
@@maddyg3208 Sounds like he too had a sense of humour. Though I think, despite their rivalry, that both bands admired each other.
@@2011littlejohn1They did.
2011littlejohn1...They weren't satirizing. They were paying homage to the BEACH BOYS
@@lar7905 They were doing both.
RIP Jeffrey Foskett. Your lead vocal was great!!
Croctribe...A true BEACH BOYS fan would notice Jeffrey Foskett . Kudos .
A Beatle with the beach boys in performance, finally!!! I just love it!!
I was there. Right up front & center at the stage. My friend Terry Summey got pushed over the fence by the stage & had to leave.
Ringo looked so excited (or so high) that he was almost foaming at the mouth, but he managed to keep the beat and his sunglasses in place at the same time.
Drunk
I accidentally clicked this. But, man, am I GLAD I did!!
Yes singing Back in the USSR during the 4th of July in the US capital
During the cold war
Not only Beach Boys are singing a song in the independence day of their country inspired in the archienemy of the country... the song was inspired in them and released by their own 'archienemies' 😂
Fantastic !!! Ringo looked like he was having just as much fun playing on this Beatles song as he did when The Beatles were still together. Seems like he was just waiting for a chance to drum on Back in The USSR to a Beatles size crowd. The Beach Boys were great as always. Loved it !
Maggie Rae
I think he was waiting for a chance to drum on this song, period. He had temporarily quit when the Beatles made their recording, so Paul filled in.
Ringo was a better drummer than some think he was. Some say he just pounded the drums like Dennis Wilson. They were both under rated. On a good day, Dennis Wilson was a very good drummer...
Ringo is understated in his playing style. But he’s a damn good drummer.
Unfortunately Dennis didn’t have any good days 🤣
I once read Dennis played the drums like a cave man. I say he played with tremendous emotion and he was having a ball. Yeah , I was too and that's all that mattered . Didn't care if he wasn't Buddy Rich .
I saw someone compare Ringo's ability to keep an even tempo against Pete Best. Ringo was perfect, while Pete would speed up and slow down.
Paul didn't think he was better than Ringo at playing the drums. He played the drums on the song because Ringo had quit the band during the time they were recording it.
Ringo quit for that reason 😂 Evrytime he went to the loo Paul jumped on his kits trying to cut a drum part...then he decided the hell with it and went to Sardinia to write octopus garden
@@realIndian80 Very true. Paul also dropped in drum parts when the other guys went home at the end of the sessions.
Ringo would hear a playback the next day and would think he was losing his mind .
If you follow the takes of Sgt. Pepper lead song you'll hear what I mean.
Judging from the sound of the original, Paul is a great drummer. But he’s nowhere near as good as our boy Ringo.
@@realIndian80 Not true lol
Ringo is the man. Always catches so much shit from the "know it alls" of the world and still he's always just happy and having a good time. Great way to live.
here is respect.the beatles always said about the importance of the beach boys album,pet sounds and now the beach boys singing a beatles song.respect from both sides and its great.
The 80's were a very colorful time.
D R U G S
Actually, brown and grey dominated tho colour field a lot more in the 80´s than in the 70´s, that decade was a lot more colourful than the 80´s ;)
The most curious thing about all this is that in the Original Recording Paul McCartney records this song playing Ringo's drums in a much heavier way (a style that Ringo didn't like to play) and to provoke his friend (who was out of the group at that time) Paul sings with a nasal tone very similar to Ringo.
Alright now Ringo !!! Great to see you playing the drums on Back in the USSR. Loved it.
Fun fact no one on that stage was at the recording of the original song
The Beach Boys were, after all, the American Beatles ... and perhaps Starr is the most underrated drummer in contemporary music!
Ringo Starr(Richard Starkey) didn't play the drums in the original recording of Back in the USSR. It was Paul McCartney who played the drums and the lead guitar part on this first track of the Beatles (White album) which was released in '68
A Beatle appears and the crowd goes crazy!
the doubling of the lead with Jeff and to a lesser extent Mike makes this version of the song much better than unreleased studio version
This is classic, especially since "Back in the USSR" was clearly a parody of The Beach Boys' style.
This is just TOO FUCKING AWESOME!
wow Beach boys chorus sound amazingly beautiful
So Ringo finally got a chance to play that song. LOL. It's Paul playing drums on the White Album.
@cometandcupids yes,that's funny thinking this is possibly the one and only time Ringo ever performed on this song! even funnier,he did it with the Beach Boys...
Ringo wasnt even on the original recording of this song LOL😂
01:49 que buenos cortes manda RINGO
This is great! Brian Wilson was the one who suggested to Paul McCartney that he sing it like a Beach Boys song so he did! Most of the comments on here are at least five or six years old and we written by a bunch of arrogant Pricks who thought they knew everything! It's laughable reading it now.
Gary Snow wrong. It was actually Mike Love who suggested it. Apparently. While they were in India in 1968.
Ringo is just the fucking coolest
Gold
Epic!!!
funny thing: Ringo didn't played drums for the original Back in the USSR recording from the WHITE ALBUM. Nice version, though :)
BRIAN AND RINGO
Great, the Beatles wrote USSR as a tribute to the Beacy Boys.
Hilarious that the Beach Boys are singing the song that McCartney wrote as a parody of the Beach Boy's harmonies and their "girl songs."
Jerry Jaye a parody?
Mike Love says that Paul wrote "USSR" as a parody of the Beach Boy's harmonies and their "girl songs." Mike and the Beatles were all in India at the same time in 1967 and Mike claims he and Paul discussed having a Beatle song spoof the Beach Boys. I have no way to know if it is true, but so says Mike Love.
Jerry Jaye ohhhh i see... wow, its s great song though. so glad ive found it. thanks for replying:)
@@essessessesq not a parody. An homage.
Ringo and Mike Love were in India when this song was written !
The All Star
It must be strange for Ringo to be playing a song written by his mate but looking down, it's not his Beatles mates but the Beach Boys...sure would like to know what's on his mind. ..
Enjoying the moment and having a good time?
Mostly being drunk and not remembering what happened
Georgia's always in his mind, my my my my my.
Ringo didnt even play the drums on this song. It was Paul
The funny thing is Ringo didn't pay on ussr , Paul did, Ringo quit that week
ok, just to get things strait, they had a deadline to release the album and paul took over after ringo walked out after fight. he had to do the drums when ringo dint show for more than 3 days. ringo said he would have done the same thing if he was in pauls shoes. no everyone saying that paul is a tool.
many of these artists are quite versatile----during the Jailhouse Rock session, Elvis wanted his bass player Bill Black to switch from the big upright bass to a new small electric-guitar bass-----Bill B was having much trouble making the switch.---So Presley, who was a decent guitar player, took over and played electric bass himself at the session and on the records.
A great live perfornance
Well they chose the wrong song to bring ringo on drums he wasn't even on the original Paul played drums on back in the USSR is that period of few weeks during the recording of the White album when he said he will quit and went for holiday to Italy.
Nabs Sidig So what after all that was an opportunity to catch up ;-)
He's a Beatle...playing a Beatles song.
We're good.
@@stevenwoods6093 lmao you must not be a drummer
@@originalSiiiN
Played in 31 Bands since I was 12......playing in 3 right now......Yeah, I'm a drummer.....like Ringo.
@@stevenwoods6093 unbelievable! based on the ignorance of your previous comment, i wouldn't have even guessed you were a musician at all let alone a drummer!!
cool, thanks
cool.
I was there for this concert. it's a long story, but I had a friend who invited me, & so I went--she knew I was a BB's fan 4-ever. To this day 2 things : 1. Mike's absolute worst hat, EVER. It looked so stupid, it was beyond words. ----2. BW looked miserable. ------3. Jeff Foskett , Bruce, Al, & Carl, saved the day by their total professionalism. Mike was totally OUT OF CONTROL. -----------4. It was 95 degrees ! ----------------------Wolfsky9, 70 y/o
@@matthewerulkar3164 I was there too.
Now I can see why nobody can touch my boys The Beatles!
And they chose a song where Paul played drums 😂
This is funny. Americans singing about the good ol' USSR 🇷🇺
Love you UK keep up the fight brothers
HAHA he sings da do ron ron...oh ringo you are so cool.
✌🏻❤
Nice !! Ringo should have played drums on the original It would have a deeper pocket
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Well, at least they let him drum on the song.
dear beautiful soul reading this, God loves you and He has amazing blessings for you❤️
Here is an article from wiki in which Paul states that he wrote this song as a parody of the Beach Boys -----en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_in_the_U.S.S.R.
Beach Bingo.
Carl took a break in this song?
Why didn't Old Dutch join them on stage ? Back in California he was a fan of The Beach Boys
Here's one source showing that Paul was doing a satire of the Beach Boys when he wrote this record---Wikipedia also tells the same story: www.songfacts.com/facts/the-beatles/back-in-the-ussr
Dennis goes :( - Ringo comes! - is that good or bad? i dont know...
The problem with Dennis was his substance abuse not his drumming but that abuse could hamper his playing at times though..
Brian would use studio musicians, at least in a lot of the stuff later on so Carl and Al weren't on some of those recordings either. Sometimes the Beach Boys would be on the road without Brian who would be in the studio working on the latest music.
Ringo, at times, just pounded the drums when it was called for but was more versatile than just doing that.
ringo came in by helicopter
Bruce's shorts. That is all.
Why not have the original drummer Paul McCartney handle drums on this song?
Because He wasnt there?
@@TSGPhilipp They could have invited Sir Paul to come. It's not like Ringo was just vacationing in the area at the time, right?
To give Ringo the chance to finally play the drums on it?
The Beach Boys could've put on sth more suitable than trunks, it's a Beatles masterpiece after all
The music speaks for itself
Bruce wearing shorts again!
Like the socks!
♪ Da lon lon lon
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(@￣□￣@;)！！ 🐰✌
Back in the USSR - Written by Chuck Berry.
No, it's not a Chuck Berry song. Back in The U. S. A. is from Chuck Berry, not this one here, it's a Beatles song, written by Paul McCartney.
@@cotr-christmasontherocks4649 - I meant McCartney plagiarized Berry; which he did often.
@@SleazyNice Paul never plagiarized Chuck Berry. The only time he came close was when he used Chuck Berry's bassline for I Saw Her Standing There, but that's legally not plagiarizing. It was John who plagiarized him for Come Together and got sued.
@@ewest14 - Not only did Paul steal the bassline for I Saw Her Standing There, he also stole the melody. So yeah, he's a plagiarist. But neither he nor Lennon are anywhere near the level of Leiber and Stoller and Led Zeppelin when it comes to plagiarism.
Paul was constantly stealing. Check this out:
th-cam.com/video/G5odaPQ0eVo/w-d-xo.html
It was produced in 1956 at Parlophone, headed by George Martin. Yes Martin helped the Beatles steal.
This is also the reason he kept his mouth shut when Sublime came out with "What I Got".
@@SleazyNice Paul copied the bassline for I Saw Her Standing There, but he admitted to it openly and using the bassline wasn't plagiarizing according to the law. He did not plagiarize the melody though, that's original.
Paul was not constantly stealing. Just as a lot of the comments suggest in the video you linked, Paul only took inspiration from that song. He took parts of it and added his own parts to create something new.
I love the USSR! God bless
all that cocaine
you never see real blood
Carl Wilson was the only Beach Boy at that time who had a sense of style. Bruce Johnston dressing like a tennis player was the opposite.
Wow, way to totally insult a rock and roll legend. "Ringo, come and jam with us!" *plays one of the few drum songs that he didn't even write*
Considering Ringo only wrote two songs with the Beatles, there was not much to choose from. In addition, this song had the "beach Boys" written all over it so it makes sense for them to do it.
so what Ringo didn't play on the original you didn't have to be a drum virtuoso to play that song it was very simple I played it when I was 12!
...Wrong lads!
Interviewer: "John, is Ringo the best drummer in the Rock?" John: "He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles" Ringo did what needed to be done and provided the glue to keep them together.
Except John never said that..it was brit comedian Jasper carrot in his comedy routine.
I always just assumed he was referencing Pete Best.
@Mal McKee he's not that good. He's no Keith Moon nor John Bonham.
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Ringo was wasted